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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLord of the Rings, Pop quiz time:
How many potential fatal wounds did Frodo sustain through the trilogy?
Paulie
(8,462 posts)I just started listening to book two though...
Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)I said, near fatal.
I think there's one more. He was almost run through in the Orc cave, but the Mithril Shirt saved him.
Possibly a fourth at the end.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,814 posts)Knife wound from the Black Rider, spear thrust from the cave troll in Moria and Shelob's sting.
What do I win?
Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)Why did he black out?
Wounded Bear
(58,814 posts)no weapons involved.
Iggo
(47,616 posts)...which is why Frodo was afterwards known as Frodo Of The Nine Fingers.
Wounded Bear
(58,814 posts)Yavin4
(35,455 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)Was that when Sam wouldn't give Frodo the ring?
Orrex
(63,306 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,814 posts)who almost drowned. Frodo was in the boat.
Orrex
(63,306 posts)But, upon rereading the text, I find that it played out differently onscreen. Does that still count?
Wounded Bear
(58,814 posts)although drowning was not the primary concern for it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)Damn. Frodo really got his ass kicked in. Poor little hobbit.
Orrex
(63,306 posts)What about almost getting eaten/smothered by that tree?
It ain't easy being Frodo.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)Orrex
(63,306 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)Sam was the one who almost drowned at the end of the second movie.
Orrex
(63,306 posts)Still not sure if it counts, though.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)Sword wound, Nazgil king
Pike wound, cave troll
Spider bite
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Knifed by Black Rider
Speared by orc or troll in Moria
Bitten by Shelob
Bitten (finger) by Gollum
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)just curious
Baitball Blogger
(46,802 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Frodo was also knocked unconscious and captured by the barrow-wights. It's not exactly a fatal wounding, but it's a potentially fatal situation if the hobbits weren't rescued by Tom Bombadil.
The same with Old Man Willow - but, that was potentially fatal to Merry & Pippin, not Frodo directly.